So I was thrilled when I saw "Zombie-Based Learning: Geography taught in Zombie Apocalypse." It's a kickstarter campaign by a middle school teacher who's putting together a curriculum for geography that leads the students through a narrative of a post-apocalypse zombie survival, where they'll learn and apply all the basic middle- and high-school level geography principles they'd have learned[1. Read: memorized out-of-context well enough to pass some tests.] in a traditional lecture course.

The teacher putting this project together got into teaching for the best reason I think anyone gets into anything: He didn't like the way it was being done, so he put himself forward to try and do it better.

There are 22 days left in the kickstarter, and they're a little over halfway towards their $5,000 goal. Here's the link again. If you can spare it, give a contribution.